Happens every now and then that your browser wants to use a non-standard high port for some reason or other. I'd just allow it and not worry about it, unless you're visiting some dangerous or otherwise unsavory site.. Or on the other hand, you can block it and if everything works ok, then no loss either.

Outpost will use whatever domain name it encountered first for a particular IP address when listing entries for that address in the log. If it has no address cached, it will do a reverse-DNS lookup for it (in which case the result returned will depend on the IP address administrator if there are several domains sharing that IP address).

Depending on how "dodgy" the website you visited was, it could have included a link to a hijacked page on this domain.

Cheers Paranoid, the thing is it doesn't happen while I'm browsing...I'm connected to the net (via AOL ) but Firefox isn't open when I get the outpost dialog box asking to allow Firefox access.
I usually run ewido/adaware/spybot after such a request just to be on the safe side.

The thing that really concerned me was google returning with absolutely nothing regarding the patrick.whatever search...(imagine the wife being speechless for effect) lol.